Disappointing: NAACP Statement on March Unemployment Numbers

50 Years After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 African Americans Still Have Twice the Unemployment Rate of White Americans

*(Washington, DC) – The NAACP has released the following statement in response to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) March employment report which indicates that for the month of March, the national unemployment rate was 6.7 percent.

The unemployment rate for Asians was 5.4%, for whites 5.8%, Latinos 7.9%, for African Americans 12.4% and no data was released on American Indians.

“America’s job crisis is on the verge of becoming a deeply rooted structural epidemic for all Americans. Over six years after the beginning of the Great Recession, with a sluggish job growth rate of 192,000 a month, it will take an additional five more years to get to pre-recession employment numbers. African Americans have suffered radically high unemployment numbers for decades and continue to have over twice the unemployment rate of white Americans. Fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we must act with renewed urgency on the unfulfilled civil rights campaign to end racial economic inequality.

The NAACP Economic Department was relaunched in 2011 and currently has four program areas: Fair Lending, Economic Education, Opportunity and Diversity, and Community Economic Development. The NAACP Economic Department is dedicated to ensuring that “every person will have equal opportunity to achieve economic success, sustainability, and financial security.”

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We’re not surprised about this are we?
Is anybody expecting improvements for Black people? From the government? Can anybody accept that so many in this nation are sick over having a Black president? Can we accept that the blame does not belong to President Obama, and that Black people have been in trouble since slavery, and that we need a little bit more than a Black president before we can even scratch the surface? If you think things are bad now, wait until you see what comes from the next Republican administration – remember the Bush’s? They just took us from bad to worse and everybody knows it, so time to stop blaming the current administration …

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